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Curbed: Clutter discussed in “Your Quarantine Clutter Has a Long and Distinguished History”

October 16, 2020

Design and architecture critic Alexandra Lange featured the book in an astute essay for Curbed called “Your Quarantine Clutter Has a Long and Distinguished History”:

According to Jen Howard’s timely new book Clutter: An Untidy History (Belt Publishing), the Victorians invented clutter. “In 19th-century Britain, during Queen Victoria’s rule,” Howard writes, “industrialization, urbanization, and the expansion of empire, together with an uptick in disposable income, put more objects within reach of more people. Mainstream conventions did not encourage those with means to be minimalists.”

Read the full article at Curbed.

Filed Under: Clutter, In the Press Tagged With: Alexandra Lange, clutter, Curbed, decluttering, material life, pandemic clutter

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